How reason almost lost its mind : the strange career of Cold War rationality / Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin.

  • Erickson, Paul, 1976-
Date:
2013
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Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Physical description

259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-249) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the struggle over Cold War rationality -- Enlightenment reason, Cold War rationality, and the rule of rules -- The bounded rationality of Cold War operations research -- Saving the planet from nuclear weapons and the human mind -- "The situation" in the Cold War behavioral sciences -- World in a matrix -- The collapse of Cold War rationality -- Epilogue: Cold War rationality after the Cold War.

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    History of Medicine
    CP.PX.6
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  • 9780226046631
  • 022604663X